Member for Charlestown Jodie Harrison talked to the new citizens about how diversity is celebrated in Australia, telling them "we want you to keep your culture" and "we want you t ...

LOCAL-trained mare Rubi's Serve is racing in great form on the two Newcastle tracks and should win again when she contests the 1400 metre Benchmark 64 Handicap at the Velich Brother's Memorial ...

Pro-Palestine activists have unfurled a banner bearing some of the names of 20,000 children killed in the conflict in Gaza outside the office of Newcastle Labor MP Sharon Claydon.

It's an interesting time in the A-League. The January transfer window is upon us, and with the greatest respect to those arriving from the J-League, you'd have to say the trade to this point has been ...

CITY of Newcastle splashed thousands of dollars on expensive gifts purchased with ratepayer funds for its annual Christmas party celebrations, the Newcastle Herald can reveal.

A KITCHEN has been left charred and a neighbour has been hospitalised with smoke inhalation after a cooking fire erupted inside an empty home at Raymond Terrace.

ASIDE from the mattress slumped in the corner of a room, the rest of the house at Muswellbrook had been entirely "dedicated" to the million dollar cannabis cultivation and supply operation, the latest ...

A man has been charged over an alleged pursuit through the streets of Toronto and Edgeworth after allegedly fleeing a home ...

The flawed PEP11 plan to blast and drill for gas off our beautiful coast has officially been rejected by the federal government in a truly historic result.

Brendan Smith's life hasn't been the same since he was stabbed three years ago at Thornton.

Not much will change for Josh Mills when he becomes a citizen on Friday, but the rugby union diehard anticipates a bit more tension with his Welsh dad when the Australian Wallabies play the British ...

SO much has changed since I was indoctrinated as a school girl in the 1940s and '50s about what being Australian meant. Attending a small rural primary school, it was a day of celebration and feeling ...